UO Herald - Special Announcement

Account Center – Credit Card Subscription System Upgrades

1/30/2025 Greetings, The account center will be coming down today at 4pm ET today for a brief update.  Following this update only new credit card subscriptions will be disabled while the payment system goes through an upgrade.  We expect this work to conclude on Thursday, February 6, 2025. Update February 7, 2025: we expect this work to now conclude on Tuesday, February 11th, time TBD.  We will update as we have additional details. During this time existing subscriptions and renewals will not be impacted.  Only new credit card subscriptions will be temporarily disabled.  This includes reactivating closed game accounts and […]


UO Herald - Special Announcement

Login Server Issues

1/28/2025 Greetings, We are currently investigating issues with the login server.  We appreciate your patience while we work to resolve these issues. Update 1/28/25 5pm ET We will be pushing a client patch shortly to both the enhanced & classic clients to address login server issues.  We appreciate your continued patience. Update 1/28/25 10pm ET We have deployed patches to the Classic and Enhanced clients that should resolve the persisting login server issues.  Please be sure to fully patch your client before attempting to login.  We appreciate everyone’s patience as we worked to correct these issues. See you in Britannia, […]


UO Herald - Special Announcement

2025 Roadmap Winter Update

1/21/2025 Greetings, We hope everyone’s new year is off to a great start!  We’d like to give you an update on what you can look forward to in Publish 119 and beyond! Publish 119 is currently slated for World Wide Release on February 25, 2025 (barring major issues) – we hope to bring the first batch of Publish 119 to Test Center 1 soon as it makes its way through QA.  Some of the highlights include, Veteran Rewards – new decorative & utility items as a thank you for your continued support throughout the years! Paladin Armor Sets – Available […]


UO Herald - Special Announcement

Server Downtime

1/14/2025 Greetings, We are currently experiencing unexpected server downtime unrelated to the recently announced hardware migrations.  We appreciate your patience while we work to resolve these issues. See you in Britannia, UO Team


UO Herald - Community

Happy Holidays & Happy New Year

12/20/2024 Greetings, We would like to wish everyone a very happy holidays & happy new year!  This past year was a busy one for the UO Team!  From the successful launch of Ultima Online: New Legacy to Echoes of the Blighted Realm we want to thank all of our players for being part of that success – we could not have done it without you!  As the team embarks on a winter’s rest to recharge and rejuvenate, we could not be more excited for 2025!  Our first publish of 2025 is scheduled for February – this production shard publish will […]


New Legacy Publish 1

12/9/2024 Greetings, We are pleased to announce that New Legacy Publish 1 is now live on the New Legacy shard!  You can read the full publish notes here.  This is our first publish to New Legacy post launch and includes a host of quality of life upgrades, bug fixes, world loot drops, a legendary artifact trader and more! With this first release to New Legacy we want to outline how the deployment process will work for this and future publishes.  Publishes to New Legacy will go live and there will then be a week long “evaluation” period.  During this period […]


UO Herald - Special Announcement

Shattered Sanctum Event Expansion

12/5/2024 Greetings, As we continue to monitor feedback related to the Shattered Sanctum event we are pleased to announce the following changes will be released to Origin, Izumo, and Baja during their next regularly scheduled maintenance, Investigations into the unknown origins of the Undead Invasion across Britannia have discovered the Solen Tunnels have been used by the armies of the Undead to gain access to Britannia’s cities.  As such, the Solen Hive (Trammel only except Siege & Mugen) will be an active invasion area in addition to invaded cities. Resolved issue where Provocation would not work on invasion monsters Resolved […]


UO Herald - Hotfix

Shattered Sanctum Event Lag

11/20/2024 Greetings, We’ve received reports and have investigated instances of latency associated with the Treasures of the Shattered Sanctum event during peak population periods.  In an effort to address this concern we will be pushing a hotfix  beginning with North American shards during each shard’s regularly scheduled maintenance on November 21, 2024. As a result of this change non-paragon spawn will no longer leave corpses when killed during the event.  This change will not impact your ability to earn points towards a minor artifact drop or your ability to qualify for that drop when killing monsters. This is not a […]